I truly did start with what I hoped for
When we are young we dream of so many things, and reality at that point does not exist, until the day reality hits, and it hits you so hard, that getting up seems to be so impossible, and all that you ever dreamed of just falls into pieces, at this point you feel useless, and when people say something to you, you take it personal it hurts like hell, when you go to church it feels like the umfundisi is talking to you, judging you and making you feel worse than you are. My story Deni, is about overcoming the obstacles that life brings after school, when u think you know everything.
It all started in grade 12; the road was bright as ever, and smooth as the surface of a mirror. I was the head boy, captain of my team, the faster’s athlete at school and so on and so forth. I had it all that a student would ever ask for, but the image of being cool fooled me into being the victim of lust. I was no longer using my brain, at this point I was using the second brain that God gave to man, without knowing the consequences of erection. That very same year I got a girl pregnant, my life changed and all hope was gone.
At that point I told myself that I would be a father to my son and give him all that I never had, without knowing that being a father asiyintsango, “any fool can make a child, but only a true man can be a father”. I decided to take any job that came before, but still had the pride of not taking just any job, after all I was an educated fool with only a metric, but in my mind I had it all figured out.
Seven months down the line, my boy was nine months old, and I was nine month poor and deeply depressed of how I was going to pay my bills, for my child had to eat, and the mother also needed to look good. All was looking good but me. One night she came for a sleep over, a phone call ruined everything....................... her phone rang, and it kept on ringing, so I decided to answer it, it was a man’s voice and It greeted me by calling me baby. Silence came upon me, my heart filled with anger, In shock I replied, he asked me who I was, and I told him that I was the brother of the person he was looking for, so he went on and said, “tell her that Mr. x called, I wanted to find out how is our child, and how much would be needed for the baby this month”
To cut a long story short, that guy was the father of the child I have raised for nine months, it broke my heart, I was no longer the person who was highly motivated, to my family I was failure, to my friends I was a joke. Inside I completely died; I saw no reason to continue any more. All my effort was wasted my time and life was ruined, from then on I hated girls, my anger was directed to the wrong people. I start doing the wrong things in life, from taking drugs, stealing my parents money to robbing people; all this helped me to forget about everything, in my eyes I was ukleva and a hero. Until the day an old friend told me that the was still hope, and gave me the way forward.
To cut my story even my shorter ..........................................................................
Whoever said” behind every successful man the is a good women”, wow they were right, I met a lady that got me back into using my first brain, I got back to my feet and dust off all the bad things that have blinded me from achieving the things I wanted in life. She made me see the bigger picture.
I had started my own business, at first I was using a wheel barrow to transport my stock, I would go house to house selling eggs, I was stocking up two boxes a week, to my friends I was a joke, they would make comments such as “bheka le ibizijela esigela” but I never let any of their stupid comments take me away from what I was hoping for and wanted to achieve.
From two boxes a week I went to five boxes from then on I have seen my business grow and mostly I have seen myself grow.
Now I stock up to 100 boxes a month, and am busy adding other products to help grow my distribution company. I always wanted to start something that belongs to me, and it took me time to accept the facts that reality, brought before me after my school years and mostly to swallow my pride, and start with what I hope for. Am now happy and stress free, it makes me feel good when I see a smile on my mother’s face, she always says “I most lost you my son”, but it still breaks my heart to know that for some mothers out there; it was just too late for their kids, and many teens still fall victim of wanting to be cool and destroying their lives without knowing. “linda your time is coming, ujavo sawu thola lana, futhi siso-wushiya-lana, don’t ask for things that I beyond you, just start with what you hope for, and all will fall in to place”. THANKS

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my business started with selling eggs from door to door,from being a joke to being a person who helps creat jobs.